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makeself.sh is a small shell script that generates a self-extractabletar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shellscript (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. Thearchive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an optionalarbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation script).This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor inthe Windows world. Makeself archives also include checksums for integrityself-validation (CRC and/or MD5 checksums).